imap-backup vs BookStack

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imap-backup		BookStack
	Project
17	Mentions	312
1,298	Stars	13,833
-	Growth	2.6%
9.6	Activity	9.6
22 days ago	Latest Commit	3 days ago
Ruby	Language	PHP
MIT License	License	MIT

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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

imap-backup

Posts with mentions or reviews of imap-backup. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-05.

Taking (Back?) My Internet Privacy and Presence
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Jan 2024

Personally, I use https://github.com/joeyates/imap-backup to archive all my emails and then only keep them on the remote server for as long as I need to (basically until I read them and respond or download an attachment into https://docs.paperless-ngx.com )
Is there a selfhosted webmail client or solution that downloads and stores emails locally?
1 project | /r/selfhosted | 21 Oct 2023

I use imap-backup to backup my MailCow email boxes.
Any service for archiving/downloading emails?
3 projects | /r/selfhosted | 3 Apr 2023
Is there a self hosted app that can backup my google email?
4 projects | /r/selfhosted | 19 Aug 2022

You'd need an IMAP backup tool. For example: https://github.com/joeyates/imap-backup . Add it to cron if you want it to backup periodically.
Need to import a mailbox with over 4 million emails into an O365 shared mailbox, but Microsoft has a limit of 1 million messages per folder - what are my options here?
1 project | /r/Office365 | 1 Feb 2022

Here's a bad idea that may work. https://github.com/joeyates/imap-backup. I used something like this when we migrated from ridiculous email system to exchange. However the clock is ticking on this option as it doesn't support modern authentication.
‘G Suite legacy free’ users must start paying
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Jan 2022
GitHub - joeyates/imap-backup: Backup GMail (or other IMAP) accounts to disk
1 project | /r/devopsish | 9 Jan 2022
Hacker News top posts: Jan 8, 2022
5 projects | /r/hackerdigest | 8 Jan 2022

Imap-backup: Backup Gmail or other IMAP accounts to disk\ (44 comments)
Imap-backup: Backup Gmail or other IMAP accounts to disk
1 project | /r/hackernews | 8 Jan 2022
IMAP-backup: Backup Gmail (or other IMAP) accounts to disk
15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Jan 2022

BookStack

Posts with mentions or reviews of BookStack. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-22.

15 open-source tools to elevate your software design workflow
22 projects | dev.to | 22 Jan 2024

Link | Demo | Github | License
What wiki platforms are you using and how is it structured?
1 project | /r/sysadmin | 11 Dec 2023

While I haven't used it, Bookstack is spoken of favourably.
Solution de documentation local ?
1 project | /r/Sysadmin_Fr | 24 Nov 2023
Revision numbers?
1 project | /r/BookStack | 12 Oct 2023

On another topic, anyone knows anything similar to what's mentioned in this issue? https://github.com/BookStackApp/BookStack/issues/473
Welche Note taking/Wiki App nutzt ihr, falls überhaupt?
9 projects | /r/de_EDV | 10 Jul 2023
I am tired of creating documents in WORD. Looking for suggestions
1 project | /r/ITManagers | 10 Jul 2023
System documentation -IT dept (not MSP)
1 project | /r/sysadmin | 5 Jul 2023

We use a selfhosted Bookstack
What do you guys use to save / store resources you find online for later use?
1 project | /r/csMajors | 23 Jun 2023

In a self hosted bookstack wiki alongside my notes etc. https://www.bookstackapp.com/
Someone please create a modern alternative to MediaWiki
1 project | /r/selfhosted | 18 Jun 2023

Are you sure you need a wiki and not a knowledge base like osticket or bookstat? https://www.bookstackapp.com/
What WIKI do you recommend
5 projects | /r/sysadmin | 9 Jun 2023

You can spend as low as nothing and use BookStack for a great wiki experience.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing imap-backup and BookStack you can also consider the following projects:

ImapSync - Imapsync is an IMAP transfers tool. The purpose of imapsync is to migrate IMAP accounts or to backup IMAP accounts. IMAP is one of the three current standard protocols to access mailboxes, the two others are POP3 and HTTP with webmails, webmails are often tied to an IMAP server. Upstream website is

Wiki.js - Wiki.js | A modern and powerful wiki app built on Node.js

Oxidized - Oxidized is a network device configuration backup tool. It's a RANCID replacement!

Outline - The fastest knowledge base for growing teams. Beautiful, realtime collaborative, feature packed, and markdown compatible.

imapfw - imapfw (IMAP/mail framework)

gitbook - The open source frontend for GitBook doc sites

offlineimap - Read/sync your IMAP mailboxes (python2) [LEGACY: move to offlineimap3]

Dokuwiki - The DokuWiki Open Source Wiki Engine

lieer - Fast email-fetching and sending and two-way tag synchronization between notmuch and GMail

Documize - Modern Confluence alternative designed for internal & external docs, built with Go + EmberJS

imapbackup - A Python script for incremental backups of IMAP mailboxes

Mediawiki - 🌻 The collaborative editing software that runs Wikipedia. Mirror from https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/core. See https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_access for contributing.